"Thus the sum of things is ever being renewed, and mortals live dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life."
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"Every person tries to flee himself—yet despite ourselves, we remain attached to this self which we hate."
― Titus Lucretius Carus
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"Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began."
― Titus Lucretius Carus
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"There is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements."
― Titus Lucretius Carus
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"So far as it goes, a small thing may give analogy of great things, and show the tracks of knowledge."
― Titus Lucretius Carus
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"Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive from what ills you are free yourself is pleasant."
― Titus Lucretius Carus |
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"Man's greatest wealth is to live on a little with contented mind; for little is never lacking."
― Titus Lucretius Carus
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"All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.”
― Titus Lucretius Carus |
"Watch a man in times of adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off."
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